Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 121

Ida could not imagine where they could come from, unless they were the flowers from the king's garden.

Who acts: Ida, doors · What happens: not imagine, come, be · To what, where: flowers, garden

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ida, doors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ida	Ida	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 imagine	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 imagine	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 imagine	advmod
4	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 come	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 imagine	ccomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	8 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flowers	punct
11	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	15 flowers	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 flowers	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 flowers	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flowers	det
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	20 garden	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 garden	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 king	case
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flowers	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not imagine	could	Ida			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come	could	doors = door			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	doors = door	the flowers	the king's garden	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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